According to the filing, Yatra is raising this capital through Series D preferred stock which is convertible to common stock and it intends to use the capital raised for general corporate purposes including executive salaries. Interestingly, the filing suggests that the company was planning to actually raise $16.5 million but raised $14.5 million ($14,499,993) in the end. That being said, Yatra CEO Dhruv Shringi has apparently denied any such fund raising activity to TechCircle and has not responded to any questions regarding the SEC filing to the publication. We’re wondering if this was a pre-IPO funding.

Yatra currently has five investors according to the filing, although the company’s website lists only four at present – Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Reliance ADA Group’s Reliance Venture Asset Management, Television 18 (TV18) Group, and Intel Capital. In April 2011, it had raised 200 crores ($45 million) from Valiant Capital Management, and existing investors like Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and Intel Capital. Film actor Salman Khan had also received a minority stake in an endorsement deal in March 2012, although an Economic Times report had quoted a company official stating that the actor has received less than 5% stake in Yatra.

Earlier in the week, Yatra had acquired online hotel aggregator TravelGuru from Travelocity and had stated that the acquisition would enable it to extend itself as a leading aggregator of hotels, with access to more than 6500 hotels in India and 72,000 hotels worldwide from Travelguru. Dhruv Shringi hoped that this acquisition will help increase Yatra’s customer base, widen its product portfolio and allow it to bundle solutions, offering better deals and value propositions to its customers. He added that it would also benefit TravelGuru’s hotel partners as they’d get access to Yatra’s online and offline distribution network.

Prior to this, Yatra had acquired the events listing site BuzzInTown in January 2012. It had also acquired a B2B hotel aggregationand reservation company, MagicRooms, through its hotels subsidiary Intech Hotel Solutions, following which the MagicRooms team had joined forces with Intech. The company claims to provide reservation facility for more than 3,800 hotels across 336 cities in India and over 90,000 hotels around the world. It had reportedly recorded an average monthly revenue of $60 million clocking over 10,000 tickets and 600 rooms a day and as per filings made by Yatra Online Private Limited with India’s Registrar of Companies, it’s income for the financial year ending 31st March 2011 was Rs. 132.77 crore compared to Rs 109.86 crore in the last financial year. The company had reported a Loss before tax of Rs. 38.95 crore, and a Loss After Tax of the same amount as compared to a loss after tax of Rs 8.18 crore in the last financial year.